A chuck on a live center in a tailstock comes in handy for holding a lot of unusual shapes, doesn't it? I'm using one right now but it's not (and won't be) nearly as pretty as yours.
We do segmented turning, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Great job, Frank. Nice looking vase which will be a fine tribute to your brother's memory. I'm assuming it was Thanksgiving last year that you lost him.
That's an awesome piece of work, you should be proud. Thanks for the how to pics.
A few years back I decided to make boxes for the ashes of my wife and I. Sometime later we bought space in a cemetery. That's when I found out that the boxes I made were too big to fit in the space.
I was a mechanic for 39 years, I thought I would feel at home in a toolbox.
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